BiblioLabs

[Amanda Makula]

Hi all,

I received a message today from someone with BiblioLabs. He says: "In collaboration with EBSCO, my company (BiblioLabs) is creating a new database of electronic theses and dissertations which will be available online and free for everyone to use. To be included in the database, all we ask is that you give us permission to harvest your open access metadata. Once the ETD metadata is harvested, it would be added to our database with a link back to your institutional repository, thereby instantly increasing exposure." He also mentions making the data available open on the web via OpenDissertations.org (launching in November 2017).

It sounds good, but this is the first time I've heard of BiblioLabs and OpenDissertations.org. Is anyone else familiar with it/them? Have you worked with them? Are there any downsides?

Thanks,

Amanda Makula, University of San Diego

[Anton Angelo]

Kia ora katoa,

 

We went through a preservation and reuse exercise to see what our strategy might be around this kind of thing.  Thought the ETDs themselves are all rights reserved (at present), we’ve made the metadata (including the abstracts) cc-0/Public Domain.  This is to encourage exactly the kind of effort below.  If they want to spend some money curating and disseminating University of Canterbury’s research, all power to them

 

I see this as being a great example of using the most open license in order to get the most use out of our higher degree student’s hard work (not to speak of supervisors, librarians and technicians...) all funded by the NZ state, for everyone to share.

 

Also, this will encourage the republication of work found in theses, as journal editors and publishers are known for trawling these kinds of databases for good work.  It seems that embargoing your ETD for publication is in fact pretty counterproductive!

 

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Anton.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ETD" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to etd+uns...@ndltd.org.
To post to this group, send email to e...@ndltd.org.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/group/etd/.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/d/msgid/etd/4a374a20-6a51-46fb-983c-859bc3518946%40ndltd.org.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/d/optout.

[Anton Angelo]

However (thinking after posting) is this just a commercial version of OATD.org? 

 

aa

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/d/msgid/etd/8CFBD20EF3B10B4D972B129D5CB63963BDB84489%40UCEXMBX01-D.canterbury.ac.nz.

[Thomas Dowling]

I've spoken with the folks at BiblioLabs, but neither I nor OATD is part of their operation. My impression is that they are A) legitimately looking for another way to make the wealth of open access ETDs discoverable, and B) definitely not a scam, or some attempt to monetize your scholars' work.

Thomas Dowling

Project Owner, OATD.org

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/d/msgid/etd/8CFBD20EF3B10B4D972B129D5CB63963BDB844D9%40UCEXMBX01-D.canterbury.ac.nz.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/d/optout.

--

Thomas Dowling

Director of Technologies, ZSR Library

Wake Forest University

dowl...@wfu.edu / 336-758-5797

[Gail Clement]

Dear Amanda & ETD Colleagues,

 

Looks like EBSCO has been getting the word out widely!  At Caltech we understand this new service to be a nice strategy for universities with ETDs in their OA repositories to make those works of scholarship discoverable in the EBSCO discovery system that many libraries have implemented as their own ‘Google’. Caltech sees this as a “why not?” because it requires nothing new from our ETD repository: we already have it configured for open harvesting.

 

But, more significantly, we are investing in the new Open Thesis portal supported by the Open Science Framework (OSF) and ARL’s SHARE service.  This is a much more robust system for making repository works discoverable (and preservable via OSF).  It means that searchers looking for open access content in repositories will find theses in a search that might also retrieve relevant papers, datasets, working papers, and articles. Our view is that, because theses don’t stand alone but, rather, are often one work in a family of related research products, the OSF-SHARE approach is a more accurate and authentic way of discovering research of interest.

 

Relevant links of possible interest:

https://thesiscommons.org/

http://www.share-research.org/2015/12/theses-and-dissertations-gain-visibility-and-context-through-share/

https://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.1074/

 

Best wishes,

Gail

 

Gail P. Clement  | Head of Research Services  | Caltech Library  | Mail Code 1-43  | Pasadena CA 91125-4300  | 626-395-1203

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4806 | library.caltech.edu

[Amanda Makula]

Many thanks, Gail, Thomas, and Anton!

And thank you for the information about the new Open Thesis portal, Gail. That is a fantastic development and I'm eager to explore it!

All the best,

Amanda

[John O'Connor]

Hi Amanda,

This has happened only once at Boston College since I've been here, and we simply added 2 authors to the MODS record and made the first author "primary". You can see that thesis here:

https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir%3A107401

Hope that helps. Happy to answer any follow-up questions as well.

Best,

John

John O'Connor

eScholarship Repository Librarian

O'Neill Library, Boston College

john.oc...@bc.edu

+1 617-552-1943

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ETD" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to etd+uns...@ndltd.org.
To post to this group, send email to e...@ndltd.org.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/group/etd/.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ndltd.org/d/msgid/etd/1ded92e7-d612-4eef-8e1f-b4dcfa8de4ab%40ndltd.org.